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Palin's Acceptance Speech
Winds of Change.NET — ... I trust y'all have a better grasp of what I was talking about now. If not, head over to the Huffington Post, of all places, and watch the video. ...

Just Asking
The Reality-Based Community — September 04, 2008 [image] Just Asking Posted by Jonathan Zasloff Is there anything in Palin's speech last night that George W. Bush would disagree with? Anything? Posted at 09:40 AM | TrackBack (0) | [image] | Thread: Palin , Thread: Watching Conservatives Comments Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. ( sign out ) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear ...

McCain Adviser Lies, Says Palin Told People ‘How They’re Gonna Save Their Homes’ Last Night
Think Progress — ... Of course, Palin never said anything about the housing crisis in her speech. Though she attacked Barack Obama and community organizers, ...

Mayors and Organizers
Mudville Gazette — ... But it is important to recall that Palin's most quoted line "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities" is actually not an attack, but a direct response sparked by the official ...

John McCain Lies About Alaska Governor's Jet — Says it "Sold" on eBay "For a Profit," and Fox Covers For Him
News Hounds — ... And as for the jet? During her VP acceptance speech, Palin said she "put [it] on" eBay, implying of course, that it sold here, though she didn't actually say that it did. Today, during a campaign ...

Chris Wallace Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Bogus ‘Bridge To Nowhere’ Claims
Think Progress — ... said, ommiting [sic] mention that she’d campaigned for governor supporting the bridge. [Albuquerque, NM, 9/6/08] PALIN: And I’ve championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress thanks, but no thanks, on that “Bridge to Nowhere.” [Dayton, OH, 8/29/08] PALIN: I told the Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere. [St. Paul, MN, 9/3/08] This is demonstrably false. Campaigning for governor, Palin ...

Vice Presidential Debate Liveblog
Crooks and Liars — ... Sarah Palin and Joe Biden face off tonight at Washington University in St. Louis. Her limited official media appearances so far haven’t done a good job convincing voters she’s ready for primetime, to say the least. We all know she can give a fiery teleprompter speech, but how will she fare in a tense, high-profile showdown with one of the most knowledgeable and longest-serving members of the US Senate? Which Palin will we see tonight? The aggressive firebrand we saw in Minneapolis? Or the clueless, moose-in-the-headlights neophyte we saw ...

A Time to Reap
Obsidian Wings — ... by publius Sarah Palin, GOP Convention: I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. WP, "Obama's September Haul": The single biggest spike in online giving for the month came when the campaign took in $10 million between convention speeches by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP's vice presidential pick, and McCain. Isaac Newton (slight return): For every [excessively polarizing] action, there is an ...

Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces ‘McCain’ With ‘Chambliss’
Think Progress — ... Chambliss, he has such a strong, independent spirit. And that’s another reason I really like him. On McCAIN: John McCain and I, what we represent is that maverick independent spirit that will not let the self-dealing and excessive partisanship get in the way of what’s right. Palin On Herds: On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd. On McCAIN: John is his own man. He doesn’t run with the Washington herd. ...

Amity Shlaes: Sarah Palin with puffed up academic credentials
Angry Bear — ... one which is what keyed me to this thought for today. I was eating breakfast yesterday morning with Cspan on. Catch her as she talks about Krugman at 2:50, but dig her talk regarding Hoover at 6:50. Can you handle that laissez-faire pronunciation? Did you catch the "aught not"? Finally, this July 27, 2007 lecture, Foundation for Economic Education: Manipulating America. She starts speaking after the intro at 2:40. Listen for about 2 minutes. Now here is Sarah's acceptance speech.

A Class Act
Firedoglake — ... Well, it was spontaneous, after all, and Sarah Palin wasn't around to draw that line yet. Which she she did right up front in her convention speech, where she explained the difference between small town folks and, um, community organizers: ...

In Segment About Sykes' meanness, Miller Makes Sexist And Racist Jokes
News Hounds — ... of President Obama are more likely saying, "You go girl." On another note, O'Reilly failed to mention – while bemoaning how mean Sykes was – that Sarah Palin took quite a few below the belt shots at then-candidate Barack Obama in her RNC speech – and received roars of approval from the adoring RNC attendees. O'Reilly also didn't seem to think that maybe Cheney and Limbaugh might deserve some criticism for ...

Andrew Breitbart's Blob Journalism
techPresident — ... , "Buffy Wicks works under Valerie Jarrett, who is at the right hand of Barack Obama, The Almighty." And at a deeper level, Wicks, as a field organizer for the Obama campaign, was something of a community organizer. As was Obama, and you know who else was a community organizer? Van Jones . And as Sarah Palin famously informed Americans at the 2008 Republican National Convention , being a "community organizer" is a suspect way to spend one's time. That those connections seem tenuous upon consideration doesn't really doesn't matter all that much in the new media ecosystem. ...

LEAVE SARAH ALOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!
INSTAPUTZ — ... but particularly this one -- who makes a real show of being a hard-ass -- presume to be on a first-name basis with a politician. Palin, I'm pretty sure, couldn't pick Althouse out of a line-up of bleached-blonde drunks. Second -- perhaps explaining Althouse's odd defensive crouch -- it's telling that a banal, unsurprising observation (that Palin is a circus act, not a candidate for President) is taken as a slight. It's almost as if, for Althouse, every day is September 3, 2008 and Palin's rep remains intact. ...

Today's Top Story: A Pundit Is Reflective!
The American Scene — ... camera polish rather than the substance of their views or the experience they bring to bear. Intelligent young magazine editors are sent to pundit school. Barack Obama, an enjoyable man to hear speak, is regarded as a historically great orator, though his speeches are intellectually thinner than recent masterpieces, and so obviously inferior to history’s greatest orations that one is tempted to despair at the modern era. A sizable number of Americans regard this as the best speech of 2008. This facade sometimes slips, like a mistake in the ...